The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43J. Limbird, 1844 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... daughter , though she affected not to hear , or not to understand , what her mama was saying , looked as sour and as solemn as if she had been denied permis- sion to go to a ball . I was on the point of replying , with some impatience ...
... daughter , though she affected not to hear , or not to understand , what her mama was saying , looked as sour and as solemn as if she had been denied permis- sion to go to a ball . I was on the point of replying , with some impatience ...
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... daughter's eyes . She had assumed so much consequence , and talked so grandly in company about " papa's play , " which was about to be produced , that my disap- pointment touched her heart . My little boy , whose unaccountable dulness ...
... daughter's eyes . She had assumed so much consequence , and talked so grandly in company about " papa's play , " which was about to be produced , that my disap- pointment touched her heart . My little boy , whose unaccountable dulness ...
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... daughter of George Bussey , fourth Earl of Jersey . By her he had a family of three sons and one daughter . William Henry died November 30 , 1797 , and his widow , who afterwards married the Hon . Charles W. Wyndham , deceased in 1832 ...
... daughter of George Bussey , fourth Earl of Jersey . By her he had a family of three sons and one daughter . William Henry died November 30 , 1797 , and his widow , who afterwards married the Hon . Charles W. Wyndham , deceased in 1832 ...
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... daughter Ovid too was blest , Of copious ingenuity possess'd . Such Cicero's Tullia was , upon whose tongue And such the mother of the Gracchi fam'd , The eloquence of all her father hung . From whom they all the lib'ral arts attain❜d ...
... daughter Ovid too was blest , Of copious ingenuity possess'd . Such Cicero's Tullia was , upon whose tongue And such the mother of the Gracchi fam'd , The eloquence of all her father hung . From whom they all the lib'ral arts attain❜d ...
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... daughter , Lady Anne Egerton , was as proud as the duchess herself , and no less fiery ; on some quarrel between them , the Duchess of Marlborough had Lady Anne's picture daubed with black , and over it this inscription , " She is much ...
... daughter , Lady Anne Egerton , was as proud as the duchess herself , and no less fiery ; on some quarrel between them , the Duchess of Marlborough had Lady Anne's picture daubed with black , and over it this inscription , " She is much ...
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Page 402 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 74 - His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 36 - But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 75 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door : They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor.
Page 85 - For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes : nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Page 136 - Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead...
Page 69 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 136 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 85 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 85 - For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side : while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.